2.25 release notes items

Please note that this does not need to be pretty. It's just a list that will be used to make the actual release notes. In fact, if it's too pretty, people will link to it and complain that it's not perfect.

Attention: Press/reviewers: This is a work in progress. Items aren't checked for correctness. Statements may be completely wrong. Very large changes could be forgotten. Please wait until the final release notes are done. This page will not contain everything that will be in the final release notes.

See the open bugs in the Orca bug database. We not only track Orca bugs in the Orca bug database, we also track bugs in other components that affect Orca's ability to provide good access to them.

Compiz is still not fully accessibility friendly at this point in time. We recommend you stick with Metacity until the Compiz kinks are worked out. If you're using Compiz and want to switch to Metacity, you can run the following command: metacity --replace.

What's new for mobile developers

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GNOME 2.26 is the second release of the GNOME Mobile release set! GNOME Mobile brings standard desktop components together to provide a core platform on which distributors and handheld manufacturers can build rich programming environments.

The initial GNOME Mobile release set consists of:

System infrastructure:

BlueZ is a complete, modular, standards compliant Bluetooth stack for Linux, which includes graphical utilities for GNOME.

As soon as they start to become available, we will be collecting downloadable, testable virtual machine images of distributions based on GNOME Mobile 2.24, such as Poky, Moblin and Ubuntu Mobile, which developers can try for themselves and develop against.

The GNOME Mobile platform is at the heart of a wide range of Linux-based mobile platforms, including Maemo, the ACCESS Linux Platform, the LiMo reference platform, Ubuntu Mobile, Moblin, and Poky.

GNOME Power Manager now depends on DeviceKit-power and the engine has been re-written to remove thousands of lines of obsolete code. It now starts much quicker, and uses far less resources on multi-user systems.

Regressions

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gnome-network-preferences has been renamed to gnome-network-properties

ORBit2: stopped calling g_thread_init() to accomodate the sensitiveness of Microsoft Windows and will display a warning if it was not previously called, this will need changes in a lot of places, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547885 (XXX: this change has been cancelled)